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Tiny ocean animals that make up a base of the marine food web are ingesting tiny particles of plastic pollution, and that could be bad news for the health of the oceans.
That's the main finding of a recent study published in the journal...

The bloom that began earlier this year and shut down several shellfish fisheries along the West Coast has grown into the largest and most severe in at least a decade. UW research analyst Anthony Odell left June 15 from Newport, Oregon, aboard the National Oceanic and Atmospheric...

Utah has its share of great photographers and great locations to take photos. These special moments when the right photographer got the right shot in the right place help show how beautiful Utah really is.

Peak oil, or peak water? Peak water might be the (unfortunate) answer. Alternative sources of energy may become more widely available, but there are no alternatives to water. The ongoing depletion of groundwater contained in aquifers...

More than 300 scientists and counting have signed an open letter to the journal Science, according to scientific publishing watchdog Retraction Watch. The letter, which has been circulated among scientists on social media sites...

What if you could pluck pollution out of the air — like the methane gas emitted from cow manure — and create plastics? Scientists have long known it was possible to use climate-changing methane, rather than oil or natural gas, to make water bottles, Tupperware...

A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal, Current Biology, revealed that some psychiatric pharmaceuticals commonly used to treat depression and Parkinson's disease significantly alter human behavior. In that report, the authors found that just one dose of...

Scientists at Environment Canada went public in a rare interview to confirm that they largely agree with a statement signed by more than 200 scientists worldwide that warns about health risks from a family of 150 or more fluorinated chemicals known as perfluoroalkyl and...

Experts fear the recent floods and subsequent release of water from several North Texas lakes could mean the spread of zebra mussels to new spots they had not yet reached.
Denton County Game Warden Stormy McCuiston said it's likely an inevitability in his mind. "The zebra...

Learning the science of stream restoration is an ongoing project. In 2009, for instance, the National Science Foundation helped fund a project in which University of California at Berkeley researchers built an artificial river bed for learning...

Pink salmon are providing researchers with sobering hints to how carbon dioxide-induced acidity could affect freshwater fish species by the end of the 21st century. A study published in Nature Climate Change showed that early exposure to high levels of CO2 during the larval...

China is spending hundreds of billions of dollars annually in an effort to become a leader in biomedical research, building scores of laboratories and training thousands of scientists. But the rush to the front ranks of science may come at a price: Some experts worry that...

Persistent organic pollutants have been implicated in myriad human health problems, including cancer, neurologic, immunologic and reproductive defects, among many other adverse health effects. New lines of research suggest that chronic...

What's a healthy baby worth? A pristine lake? How about the market value of an IQ point? Some people might say it's impossible to put a price tag on such things. But the Environmental Protection Agency has been doing it for decades, proving that it is possible — though...

When Chipotle announced earlier this year that it would no longer serve food made with genetically modified organisms due to safety concerns, customers rejoiced. But there was one big problem: Just as more Americans grow wary...